Are We Becoming Uncivilized? (Page 2): No civilization is sustainable.. Ultimately, their success leads to a weakening of their will... Decadence... It's not aggression, but...

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

RascalRiley wrote:

Great civilizations were built on the backs of the oppressed.

With successive failures.

Civilization, and I am going out on a limb here, civilization are only sustainable if we help each other.

I have no examples of the human species experiencing long term sustainable.

Ants cooperate and have been around a lot longer then us and will probably witness our demise.

Aggression is not sustainable.

No civilization is sustainable..
Ultimately, their success leads to a weakening of their will...
Decadence...

It's not aggression, but complacency, that is unsustainable..

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

Canuckus Deploracus wrote:

No civilization is sustainable..
Ultimately, their success leads to a weakening of their will...
Decadence...

It's not aggression, but complacency, that is unsustainable..

The complacency is a result of the good times cycle.

If no human civilization is sustainable our demise is eminent.

The human element will be exponentially different in a thousand years from now then we are from 1923.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

RascalRiley wrote:

The complacency is a result of the good times cycle.

If no human civilization is sustainable our demise is eminent.

The human element will be exponentially different in a thousand years from now then we are from 1923.

Our demise isn't eminent..
"Our" demise is eminent...
We're a very resilient species... IMHO

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

Canuckus Deploracus wrote:

Our demise isn't eminent..
"Our" demise is eminent...
We're a very resilient species... IMHO

We will evolve and continue or we join the unknown number of species that did not. Fossils abound.

David L Loc: Central Wisconsin

RascalRiley wrote:

We will evolve and continue or we join the unknown number of species that did not. Fossils abound.

Washington D.C. is home to many very dangerous fossils.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

RascalRiley wrote:

We will evolve and continue or we join the unknown number of species that did not. Fossils abound.

Fossils represent the evolution of species...Not their demise...

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

David L wrote:

Washington D.C. is home to many very dangerous fossils.

Old enough to be petrified.

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

Canuckus Deploracus wrote:

Fossils represent the evolution of species...Not their demise...

True. There is a progression. What we have are examples of that progression.

But many species have gone extinct and humans are not immune.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

RascalRiley wrote:

True. There is a progression. What we have are examples of that progression.

But many species have gone extinct and humans are not immune.

Why should we be?

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

Canuckus Deploracus wrote:

Why should we be?

It is awareness. We have an innate sense we are superior.

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

RascalRiley wrote:

Margret Mead said, helping someone through difficulty is where civilization starts and we are at our best when we serve others.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyGsyMZoRuV/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==%0A

Who are the good guys, those that want to serve? Few amongst the majority of aspirants that have ulterior motives.

"Margret Mead said, helping someone through difficulty is where civilization starts and we are at our best when we serve others."

Damon Knight wrote a short story about that topic. It was later used by ‘The Twilight Zone’.
The sentence by Mead is a double entendre.

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

FallenOak wrote:

"Margret Mead said, helping someone through difficulty is where civilization starts and we are at our best when we serve others."

Damon Knight wrote a short story about that topic. It was later used by ‘The Twilight Zone’.
The sentence by Mead is a double entendre.

Ok. Got a link?

I watched the Twilight Zone. I enjoy imagining.

Wonttakeitanymore

RascalRiley wrote:

Margret Mead said, helping someone through difficulty is where civilization starts and we are at our best when we serve others.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyGsyMZoRuV/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==%0A

Who are the good guys, those that want to serve? Few amongst the majority of aspirants that have ulterior motives.

You are already there

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

Wonttakeitanymore wrote:

You are already there

I acknowledge your response. It indicates your substance.

Strycker Loc: The middle of somewhere else.

RascalRiley wrote:

Margret Mead said, helping someone through difficulty is where civilization starts and we are at our best when we serve others.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyGsyMZoRuV/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==%0A

Who are the good guys, those that want to serve? Few amongst the majority of aspirants that have ulterior motives.

Our nations service to others is not enduring if it leads to our own destruction. True service must not only be helpful. It must be realistic and sustainable or it will fail over time.